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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Goldmark talks with Jim Fleming about the use of music in animation.

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Naturalist and soundscape artist Bernie Krause talks about his book, "The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Any of us could land on the unplugged side of the digital divide, all it would take is a natural disaster or civil conflict. But one group is building tools that make a cell phone connection all you'd need to share information during a crisis.

David Kobia is one of the founders of Ushahidi.

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Chuck Klosterman tells Steve Paulson why Phoenix Suns basketball player Steve Nash is associated with Marxism, and how he picks subjects to write about.

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John Waters talks about the playlist of hitchhiking songs that he imagined the characters in his best-case and worst-case scenarios would be listening to when he picked them up,

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Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells Steve Paulson his subject was a thoroughly bourgeois man who chose utter penury.

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Pre-Modern hunter and gatherer cultures believed that dying was a kind of trial which didn't begin until you left your physical body and entered the supernatural world, according to sociologist Allan Kellehear. In these cultures, death is not the destruction of the body, but the annihilation of the personality and its transformation into something new.

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Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights, tells Jim Fleming his organization hopes to protect the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.

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